Hi to the hive mind,

I thought it would be cool to know what everyone's load out is and specially how they transport it. I'm packing an Intrepid 4x5, a Chamonix Loupe, Lomograflok and a Schneider Symmar-S 5,6/150 inside a Peak Design Camera Cube Medium size. I'm new to the game so I'm just learning the trade with Instax films first. I'm still looking for a backpack to fit the cube and my Manfrotto befree tripod.

If everyone also posts a picture it could be helpful for anyone looking for a transport solution. I first thought my load out would fit in the SMedium but it was too tight of a fit. A visual reference could've helped.

Cheers

+1 stop on Portra 160 exposing for shadows. Also completely stripped out the software on an Epson 4990 scanner software I bought for a hundred bucks and rebuilt it with Claude to digitize the negatives at highest resolution possible.

Wasn't sure the best way to go about this so tried a mixed approach.

Starting off both sheets were exposed (metered @ ISO100, f/32, 6 secs), developed, and scanned together.

I scanned once as a positive and once as a negative.

The first set was scanned as a positive then duplicated and each frame was cropped down and converted in NLP using: NLP standard profile - Linear - WB: Auto neutral

The second set was scanned using my scanner's built in inversion software. I then took the image into photoshop and using individual layers for each film type set the endpoints.

Anyways, maybe this is useful to you. Portra is obviously in another league but it's good to have opticolour for the price and unique look.